<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This is ultimately a rather silly idea:</div><div> a) nobody would want you to do this because of increased fire risk</div><div> b) you've just added <i>another</i> single point of failure</div><div> c) you'd be wasting your allocated power</div><div> d) it's unlikely that your low-grade UPS will have a better MTBF than those operated by the DC</div><div><br></div><div>Sure, nobody has 100% uptime, but most come very close.</div><div><br></div><div>If your gear is that critical to you, then you'd probably already be in </div><div>multiple geographic locations.</div><div><br></div><div>Buying a quality ATS is your best bet. We have a plethora of them,</div><div>and I honestly can't remember ever having had one fail.</div><div><br></div><div>Better yet, buy devices with dual PSU's.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 16/12/2010, at 4:25 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Ok, on this. What do people think of doing your own bottom of rack ups in datacentres</span></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Kind Regards,<br><br>Tom Wright<br>Internode Network Operations<br>P: +61 8 8228 2999<br>W: <a href="http://www.internode.on.net/">http://www.internode.on.net</a></div></div></span></span>
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